Ocean scientists understand that the world’s Ocean provides something extraordinary, on scales almost beyond the mind’s grasp – an interaction between ocean, atmosphere and land that supports all life. This is a narrative on a grand scale, reminding us we are dependent on vast, sustaining planetary systems: we are from the Ocean – the Ocean sustains us – but the Ocean is changing in response to human activities. ex Oceano is a collaboration between different disciplines and different understandings. Ocean scientists expressed their science to a composer: the composer expressed that science back to them in sonic form – through the making of a symphony. Composer Notes As Amy Tan suggests, so it is for me with music. Each piece that I compose seems only to come about through some unpredictable change in life that has directed me to this style of expression. Just as a chance involvement with a play by the Tasmanian playwright Tom Holloway led...